The 400-foot-long dirigible – a cross between a satellite and a spy plane – will travel to any global destination within 15 days; survey targets up to 375 miles away, and remain airborne for ten years.

The U.S. Army dispatched soldiers to patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama, a small southern town where a rampaging gunman killed 10 people on Tuesday. This obvious violation of the Posse Comitatus Act prohibiting the federal uniformed services from

Wikileaks has cracked the encryption to a key document relating to the war in Afghanistan. The document, titled “NATO in Afghanistan: Master Narrative”, details the “story” NATO representatives are to give to, and to avoid giving to, journalists.

Defense Sec. Robert Gates announced lifting a 1991 government ban on news coverage of the return of the remains of fallen service members to Dover Air Base in Delaware and will let families decide whether to allow photographs and videos.

Hundreds of times in the last 210 years, the United States has deployed its military forces in conflicts abroad, although the U.S. has only formally declared war on eleven occasions. A newly updated tabulation of those military deployments (pdf)

A U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq has called President Obama an “impostor” in a statement in which he affirmed plans to join as plaintiff in a challenge to Obama’s eligibility to be commander in chief.

On Dec. 4, Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez was found not guilty of killing two New York Army National Guard officers in Iraq — a rare case of soldier-on-soldier violence in the war and a crime for which prosecutors had sought the death penalty.

Troops will spend Thursday, April 2, staging at a forward operations base at Carroll. The next day company leaders will conduct reconnaissance and begin patrolling the streets of Arcadia to identify possible locations of the weapons dealer.

The US military will begin recruiting immigrants with special skills who are in the US on temporary visas, offering a chance to become citizens in as little as 6 months. It would be the first time since the Vietnam War that the armed forces would be

Stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become United States citizens in as little as six months.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to spend about $1.2 billion on Mississippi's Gulf Coast to buy some 2,000 seaside properties, relocate a small town's public buildings and restore hurricane-damaged wetlands and beaches.

Pentagon auditors concede that is a remote possibility because of discrepancies in records between how much chemical weapons agent was initially stored and how much of it was later destroyed at Utah’s Deseret Chemical Depot and other bases nationwide

Items most needed are new underwear, socks, T-shirts, and shoes. The public can bring donations to the coliseum from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The coliseum is at 1826 W. McDowell Road, in Phoenix.

The Army is investigating a stunning number of suicides in January — a count that could surpass all combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan last month.
According to figures obtained by The Associated Press, there were 24 suspected suicides in Janua

The Army is investigating an unexplained and stunning spike in suicides in January. The count is likely to surpass the number of combat deaths reported last month by all branches of the armed forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the fight aga

The Obama administration, reversing the Bush administration's limited interest in nuclear disarmament, is gearing up for early negotiations with Russia on a new treaty that would sharply reduce stockpiles of nuclear warheads.

The U.S. Army has ordered a recall of more than 16,000 sets of body armor after an audit by the inspector general of the Defense Department concluded that they failed tests to meet Army specifications.

The Air Force has made an appeal for a range of new technologies for its planned new arsenal of aerial rayguns. It wants large artificial optically-correct diamonds for use as portholes to shoot electropulse microwave blaster cannons through.

Defense officials say suicide among U.S. soldiers increased again last year and is at a nearly three-decade high. The Army plans to announce figures today, but senior officials told The AP that at least 128 soldiers killed themselves last year.

On 9/10/01 the Bush Administration announced that the Pentagon had "misplaced" up to $2.3 trillion.
Then following 9/11, the administration with Congressional approval spent $3 trillion (or more) on the "War on Terror" inclu